Gammons On Hamels, Dodgers, Headley

Three teams say they've backed off on Cole Hamels because they believe the Phillies will get him signed. The Phillies are willing to offer Hamels a six-year extension in the $130MM range.

The Dodgers don't expect to acquire Padres third baseman Chase Headley. Buster Olney reported this week that the Padres' asking price on Headley is remarkably high. The third baseman will be under team control as an arbitration eligible player through 2014.

One general manager doesn't expect a Zack Wheeler-caliber prospect to be traded this summer. To weigh in on the possibility of trading prospects for established stars, check out today’s MLBTR’s poll.

Comments

Well, gee, if I were the Padres and I was trading one of my players to a division rival I’d ask for a lot. The moon and stars too!

Teams get to control Chase Headley next year too. He’s also a very good third baseman-you may have noticed that a lot of teams need one of those-who hits much better away from Petco, where hitters go to die. The Padres should be able to get quite a lot for Headley. If they don’t like the packages they’re offered, they could just trade him in the off season. They’d have plenty of takers.

It is in the padre’s best interest to trade for best package, inter-division or not. They are a couple years away from competing, large chance headly is out of it by then. He also isn’t the type of player that I would be scared of facing, that i wouldnt trade in the division.

Come on Dodgers, go grab Hanley Ramirez and then extend him for 5 years. Take Garza over Dempster (younger, and not yet in his prime). Then swap out Loney for a free bag of turf seed, and let Uribe play average at 1B.